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O, LITTLE CHILD
OF BETHLEHEM
By Katharine Edolman
0 LITTLE child of Bethlehem I
9 Come to the earth today,
Come to ? vre&ry, carc-ftlled vorld
This bleaaed Christmas Day.
B every heart with new-born hope,
every home with chccr,
ig peace to trotMod, burdened souls.
Bring Brotherhood moro near.
Seek out the wer.rv, worn ones.
The grieved, ?ho hurt, the weak,
And in Thy tender pity bend
A loving word to speak.
Jloes those who walked Thy loved way%
id pity those who strayed,
g litem within Thy mercy now,
mnko them unafraid.
out the hurts and hates and fears
it rent and severed men,
understanding's blessed light
Unite their hearts again.
Encircle all the earth with love,
Let holy peace abide,
That all nuy know in measure full
A happy Cliristnuntide.
?&. 1?IP, WMtorn Newspaper Unton.)
k CHRISTMAS SPIRIT S
! |
I /"\NCE npnln tho glad time of
| the \<-nr is with us. Chll- Jf;
J dron who have been looking for
| ward to Christmas week after
j week tire tilled with tho plenaurc f
| of nntlclpHtlon. Will they l?o &
| disappointed? ft.,
Christmas celebrntes tho corn- \[[
\ng ?f n Child Into the world, ;[/
therefore It Is essentially n clill- li.
dren ? holiday. v V
Of coarse, the boys nnd girls 'if.
around our i , tli need consld- 'h
?ration, for t w must he made ?K
hnppy, but how about the little Jjlj
lads nnrt lasses without fathers
nnd mothers, or whose parents fV
are in poverty? Are they to
*rtti> 'n vain to "Denr Santa a
. ?CTius"? Hundreds of these pltl- V>
rttors, scrawled j,y hopeful K
Mats, are left unclaimed A
office every year.
lathers. aunts, tinclcs x
\ru h "me Is no long- jR
1 i which we live,
i-Lirv -tirround- yji
/Rte Kh',or''f?"i k
tate nt d Ml* t
-'?hltuntfl live ft
ur duty, so JJ
ike every ?
'"as. in- j
Oeoririan \rv"'v<? to ^
Atlant ' pn* 5
Jnclosod' f!?n!;on
plan and Sml'" B,lir' ^
d pood ?/.
p every
This special re ,hpro $
routes and In tc hp,rt' ?;?
crv fnrvlf? t r~erbprt
cry rcrvi-c is ifr-chcrt
.. ?
Are you willing to stoop down and consider
the needs and desires of little children; to re
member the weaknesses and loneliness of people
who are growing old; to bear in mind the th:ngs
that other people have to bear in their hearts; to
to trim your lamp so that it will give more light
and less smoke, and to carry it in front so that
your shadow will fall behind you?are you will
ing to d<> these things even for a day? Then
you can keep Christmas. And if you keep it for
a day, why nofc always??Henry Van D}ke.
A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY
Athens, (la. Dec. IS ?Out of every
period of adversity arises new
thoughts aud ideas which result
in higher standards of efficiency
uid more economic production.
Necessity is indeed the mother of
in ven (ion,
.There has been much talk about
the eighteen million bale cotton
crop and its disastrous effect upon
the South. There is a feeling
among some classes thai if the
South could get away from cotton
entirely, prosperity would reign
ind everybody would be happy.
Would this be the case? The'
pastures farthest /?.way look the
greenest. Despite the low pi ice of
cotton, there aro Georgia fanners
who are making as high as 575*001
net profit, per acre for their cotton
this year. They are doing it at :i i
time when some of their neighbors
aro barely making enough lo pay
for their fertilizer.
The cotton fanners who make a:
profiit evejy year are those who
obtain large yields per acre. The
cotton farmers who just break
even or lose money most years are
those who have low yields of cot*
ton per acre. A very simple problem
isn't it?
The average yield of cotton per
icre in 1925 was 153 pounds of
fint. The average cost of pro
Iuction was about 1!) cents per
pound, which was cio.se to the
average selling price. The farmers
who obtained a bale per acre
produced at a cost of !) cents per
pound and made a net profit of
$45.00 per acre, ' lie higher the
yield per acre, the lower the cost
of production, and the greater the
margin of profit. The cost of pro
duction for the crop is only
slightly less thau the crop.
The average yield for Georgia this
year will bo approximately t75j
pounds of lint cotton per acre.!
Compare the "average man" with j
the bale per acre or more man and
solution for the problem is evident-1
While production of large acre:
yields involves all of the practices j
incident to good farming, there,
ire certain phases of the problem i
chat should receive special at
tention. They are as follows:
1. Instillation of a practical
soil building.program
2. Planting cotton only on the
best land.
LI. ? Cutting out of maiginal or
low producing lauds which will
not produce profitable yields of
cotton. Diverting these lands to
pasture,.hay and timber.
4. Intelligent and liberal fert.il
ization.
G. Thoroguh preparation a ti d
tillage.
6. Liberal use of high <(iiality
seed.
7. Control of insect pests.
We will never solve our cotton
problems by running awaj from
them. Unfortunately this has been
the tendency in the past, not only
on the p irl of our farmers, I m f
wilh our business men and bankers
is well.
it hita been the custom during
years of over production of cotton
and low prices for the farmer,
business man nnd banker to say
"don't talk toine about eMton."
"1 don't wan I to hear about it."
' Cotton is the curse ofjthe South,'
etc.
Do you suppose the daiiyman
woul.l learn to be a better dairy -
m m if when visited by adversity
he should go into the hog business
and refuse to think or discuss
dairying? Certainly not. The only
way lo solve dairy probh ms i? by
thinking in terms of diirying.
Why shouldn't this same principal |
be applied to cotton? We will
never be able to make cotton yield
:he prosperity to the South that j
it should until we can get cur
people to thinking cotton, to
appreciate instead of abusing, the
'ieri?a^c that (Jod has given us.
Why should we assume this n'
(it ude? T ti order to grow more:
?of ton? Xo. It would mean the
production of less cotton. It would}
mean patting cotton production on j
in economic basis, a profitable
a;?sis. It would mean large economic
yield pet aerp. In order to make
he most money out of cotton, it.
must be produced at a low cost,,
large yields per acre are esseutial.
To bi ing about high yielil per
sic re and low cost of pr ;duction
will necessitate coi centrating on
sin ill acreages. It will in ran
cutting on t :i large part of cur
cotton acreage that lias been
j producing cotton nt a Jo.-s aud
, helping to bring about over pro
iduction. It would leave us land
j-'imugh to produce an abuud;:nctM
[of f ml and feed as well as oilier
I cash crops: It will enable us to
enlarge and impro\eour pastures,
thereby giving us a better chance
to soccer d with livestock. It would
cause us to return some of oui
I tnd to limbci, where it should go.
It will make it. possible to install
a practical soil building program.
Host of ail, it will give the southern
farmer a bank account suflicicnl
for him to supply bis family with
luxuries and educational ad vantae:
whir-h hu desires so much to have
them enjoy.
The bankers and business men
have shown a wonderful spirit of
cooperation in meeting t! e piesent
over-production situation. T licit
efforts have kept cotton at a
higherpricc level than would have
been possible otherwise. T It e
bankers and business men as well
as other agencies have a wonderful
opportunity at the present time to
help prevent a repetition of the
present situation. The farmers
realize that tliey have produced
too much cotton, that they lose
money with the polity in vogue
I'heie is ;i shortage of labor, in
some sect ions production per acre
is lovy and production costs are
?high. The psychological moment
has come. It is time to strike. Will
we lose the opportunity.
The Georgia State College of
Agriculture is doing all it can to
stimulate interest in larger yields
of cot ton on fewer acres. The
college is conducting a "More and
Metier Cotton per Acre" contest
this year, not to produce more
c >tton, but to produce more cotton
per acre on fewer acres. There are
about 800 farmers enrolled in tlie
contest- The J' will bo graded GO
per cent on total yield and 40 per
cent net profit, en five acres of
cotton. The feri ilizer innnufactnres
of Georgia contributed $1000.00
for state prizes and eoanty prizes
have been "outributed to the value
of $500.00, While results of the
contest have not been tabulated,
many creditable yields will be
made and despite the low price of
cotton some large profits per acre
will be si en.
In 1927. this Five Acre Cotton
Contest will be staged on n much
bigger scale. Announcement of the
details of the contest will be made
at a later date. Hanke rs, business
men, fertilizer companies and
oilier agencies could accomplish
no greater service for themselves
and for their communities than to
make a determined effort to cyr
stalli/.e sentiment in favor of con
centrating on small acreages of
e,>tton and largo economic yields
por acre. It is the basis that we
aro gradn, illy being forced to. Why
n it }:ot to it right away and enjoy
the prosperity that will result from
it' One or two agencies can't <io
the b alone, l?ut with everybody
working and palling together we
can do the job. Will we do it?
10. <\ West brook. Cotton Specia
list. (Jeoririii State (College of A^ii
eviturc. Athens, Ga.
THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
We congratulate Editor John 1j.
Hodges and his associate editor?
we suspect she iseditor-in-chief!?
Mrs. llodyes upon the splendid;
improvement now shown in t he i
Houston Home Journal, which has
been enlarged to a six-eolum news
paper. Thus the Home Journal is
keeping fully abreast of the pro
gressive march thftt has made
Perry and Houston county con
rpicnous during the last two
years,? Lender Tribune.
Thank you. kind sir. Everything
you sav i.s correct.
?Twelve thousand pounds pe
ran? this year from-only fourteen
acres per acre ^ on can do
as well. IJuy fine pecan tre?s
from Win. P. Bullard, Albany,Ga.
IN ATLANTA AND GEORGIA
Monroe. Ga., Dec, 20, 192G.?
Along with its great efforts to
broadcast the opportunities and
:ulvantages of (Georgia to 111**
outside world, tl.e Atlanta
Georgian-Americau is do>ug much
Por tli?' advancement of the <*ity ol
Atlanta and took a prominent
part in the recent big million
dollar advertising drive, which
readied :i successful culmination
last week.
The Georgian itself subscribed
$<>,000 to this fund, and this \^.i>
augmented by a personal suo
seription of $5.000 from Mr. W
l{. Hearst, who sent the following
telegram to Mr. F. A. Wi BOtt
Lawrencesoii, publisher of the
Georgian American:
"Have followed with inteiesl
your splendid support in the City
of Atlanta campaign, and would
like you to subscribe for me
personally five thousand dollars at
an expression of my belief in tin
? 'fleetiveuess of this advertising
;.nd the future growth of Atlanta
- "YV. R. HKARST."
This action upon the part ol
Mr. Hearst, and his pieviom
issuranees of interest and co-oper
ation in Georgia's development,
ieave no doubt of his sincere dcsiic
o leiuUcvery possible assistance
j o the advancement of llie Knipin
i Uale.
[HE BANK OF TROL'BLE ALWAYS
OPEN FOR BUSINESS
The Ibiuk of trouble never closes
It is open day and night, Suuda\
and holidays. No customer is evei
kept waiting, and every one hn.
unlimited line : of credit. He maj
borrow today, again tomorrow, auri
yet again uext week and next
month. Nothing i3 said aboul
pajis ? it is only the bank's busi
ness to lend to those who insist
upon borrowing For the resource*
<>f the trouble ltauk are unlimited
md its facilities unc<|iiul!ed. It will
lend a customer all he can carry?
ind enough more to crush him
beneath its remorseless weight. Ii
has a large list of satisfied cus
tomers who will testify to the fact
lhat this ancient institution nevei
disappoints, 'llie individual whe
wauuot be happy unless lie is
loaded down with imaginary
troubles will have his needs
promptly attended to at the bank
t hat never closes-?Albany Herald
Sale of Land Under Power Contained
In Deed To Secure Debi
Georgia, Pcach County.
I nder and by virtue ot' tiio power ol
s:ile contained in a deed t'> secure ?!ebt
Horn K. L. Fountain to W. If. l'rowi
dated May 17, 1919, ai d recoidid 01
?iune U, 1919, in the ofHce of the C lerl
ol the Superior G<>urt of Houston ('< u:i
ty, iu Book24, Polio65(5, will be Kiidbe
f. re I be door ol the Court House of ] !oi.s
ton county Ge rgiabetwhethe legal ii> urs
ol s ilo on tlie 4tii <1 ly of Januaryl9L7, to
the highest bidder for cash all of the
following di-fciibtd pr< peity, to-wit:
All that tract or parcel of of land,
j lying mivl being in tho 10th District ol
Houston (bounty, Georgia, and contain
ing Si venty-five (7,">) acres, more oi
less, tlie smile being a ]>ortion of tin
Lamar Lands deeded by Bam Withel
bauni and S. Gutliman to.l. M. Heard.
I lie property herein conveyed being n
pi.rt of the South half of lard lot No.
158, and a portion from the Southeast
corner of land lot No. 3Hi, and being
the same property deeded to ffniutcr
herein by J. M. Heard in warranty deed,
dated December 21, lylO, find refolded
J.iutinry 1911, in Look 14, folio l(j in
the Clerk's Ottice of the Superior Court
| of Houston County, Georgia, and
which deed tlie ; roperty therein and
I- ??-?? .-?i conveyed i? dexcribid as follows
"Seventy-live (?5)acrrs of the Weichel
burin propeity, bounded as follow-: On
i the South by lands t f E. L. Fountain
ai d Htirrel Green; on tho Kast by land*
of (?teen ; ? n ihc North by lands of .T
M. Heard and Greene j on the West by
km?! < 1 ('. C 1 harpe.
T: ?? in li>btedn( ss secure' by the d< eO
tii 'nr debt L a note in the pineipal
sum ? ' >'.'.O0i'.00 dated May 17, 19lP
due M iy 17, 1922, with interest from it
dale at the late of eight p r cent per
.ruiuiii. pavable annually; ?ad int res
lv?ii ; t i presented by i lu ce interest note
in the s nn of $160.00 each.
I vault has been made in the payment
of the principal and interest due there' n
a'id the untlorM^ned have elected to
bring the property to salo as provided
in the dec I to secure debt for the pur
pose o' paying the indebtedness rcpre
Rented l y the said note.
I'roef cd h of sniil sale will be apr'ied
first to 'he payment of tho indebtedness
due and owing by the said E. L. Foun
tain to the undersigned including tli
e'st of his proc? ecling ; ai d the surplus
if nnv. will tip p.iid ov r to the sa'd E
L. Fountain,
Since tlie cx<vution of the nfor
mentioned deed to secure debt W.
[Br-'?wn has* departed Ibis life and (hi
under i;*ne<l are the nominated and
qualified I'xeeutors of the will of (lie
? ?id W. R. Mr iwn, deceased.
Dee I will be ma le to the purchaser or
| purehii-er? of sail proper v ' sn;d ?nh
, by the ur.dersigned, mthori?? d in thi
r aid de? d to -eeure debt. 1 his December
18. 1926.
Tl'LA P. KENDMPK and Wij.tlAV
It. HLl'VES, na F.XO utors of the w;ll
of W. R. Brown.
C. L. ShepardTheir A'toroej -at-L iw.
Christmas Goods
from
W. B. Sims
Full Line of Fruits, Candies and everything
in Groceries to make up a first class Din
ner. Every article is the best that can be
bought and the price is right.
W. B. Sims
Perry, Ga.
S. P. CROWELL
INSURANCE
EVERY KNOWN KIND
SURETY BONDS
COURT BONDS
A SPECIALTY
PROMPT SERVICE
Prepare to Meet Your Fire
PERRY, - - ? GEORGIA.
GAIN the Christinas Tree uplifts
Lovc-ladcn arms and many gifts,
Beneath its branches may there Be
. A blessed Christmas pift for
T. D. Mason
Cash and Carry
P err}', Ga.
Best Wishes for a Merry Christmas
To all our
Friends and Patrons
H. E. Evans
Anything in the Drug Line
Phone 16 Perry, G?,